G4 1.25GHz with ATI Radeon 9000 Pro ready for Motion?

Hi there,
I'm looking into an unexpensive way to give Motion 2 a trail, since it won't install on my old faithful G4 dual 500. Should the above configuration be enough? I have an opportunity tu buy the single processor, Airport Extreme equipped version (there were several versions produced the same year).

FYI the 9000 is a AGP (the 9200 is the PCI card)
the 9000 is lacking pixel shaders (where Motion gets it power)
I ran Motion 1 and Motion 2 since it came out on my dual 1.25 with a 9800 and it FLEW
better then a G5 with a 5200 or 9600
with this card (under $260)
http://eshop.macsales.com/item/ATI%20Technologies/100435058/
you can run motion very well for now on your system
(that page BTW pat is talking about the Standard video card not after market ones)
DAVE

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